What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?
World Nuclear News11 Marras 2024

What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?

Martin Cheetham is the station director of the EDF-run Heysham 2 nuclear power plant on the Lancashire coast in northwest England. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors which were first connected to the grid in 1988. They have a combined power of 1.24 GW and had an initial design life to 2023 before being extended to 2028. The second unit at Heysham 2 power plant set a record with 940 days of continuous operation from 2014 to 2016 and the plant is now closing in on setting a new record for ...

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